Tag: museum
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Alison Homestead Wyong Australia
Alison Homestead Wyong Australia Set on one of the original land grants in the area, dating from 1825, the Alison Homestead is the home of the Wyong District Museum & Historical Society. Although the original homestead was the subject of an arson attack in 2011, the rebuilt building has many great items generously donated by… Read more
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Gunnedah Rural Museum
Gunnedah Rural Museum Arriving at the museum we were greeted by a happy volunteer who gave us a map of the layout and told us to help ourselves to a tea or coffee. With our travels we have found rural museums occupy old houses, so are quite small. Not the Gunnedah Rural Museum, it takes… Read more
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Greta Museum and Migrant Camp
Greta Museum and Migrant Camp Located in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, Greta once housed a large Australian Army camp, which later became a post-war migrant camp. Little remains of the camp apart from foundations and scattered stones. If the local museum did not keep the memory alive, it might have been forgotten completely.… Read more